By COLlive reporter
United States Attorney General William Barr met with representatives of the Orthodox Jewish communities of Boro Park, Williamsburg and Crown Heights to address the recent upsurge in hate crimes, Tuesday.
Barr said the meeting was timely as it took place a day after the International Holocaust Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.
Attending the meeting were key representatives of Jewish organizations, including Rabbi Eli Cohen, Director of the Crown Heights Jewish Community Council (CHJCC).
Crown Heights is among the Jewish areas to experience an alarming uptick in anti-Semitic attacks – verbal and physical – recently.
Barr said he is “extremely distressed” about recent acts of intimidation and violence against Jewish communities, and said federal authorities will be lowering their levels of tolerance for acts of anti-Semitism moving forward in order to more aggressively prosecute hate crimes cases.
The conversation extended to discuss bias against religion in education and other areas of concern to the Jewish community.
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Same old faces in photos. All talk, no action eccept new pictures.
What are you doing to solve this problem? I’m sure if you’re criticizing the people that are at least trying, you must be doing something extraordinary. Problems like the ones the communities are facing don’t go away after one meeting with one person. These are complex issues that the people in the pictures are working tirelessly to solve. If you really feel that they aren’t doing anything, maybe get involved yourself.
From what I’ve heard in the circles of Jewish organizations I work with, he has long been respected, from as far back as the eighties and nineties, as a man of integrity who is outspoken for justice and accomplishes good things. We should have hakaras hatov.
where are the frum politicians? Where are the Rabbonim (the REAL community leaders)?